GLA's Land Rights and Climate Action Nexus

Tenure is a critical element for the prosperity of people living in forest areas and ensuring the long-term sustainability of forest ecosystems. But it is an area in which a major gap exists in many countries whose legal systems and forest management institutions fall short in their recognition of community-based tenure based on traditional occupancy and stewardship. Scientists, global leaders and thinkers, and First Nations peoples around the world continue to stress that we must listen to Indigenous voices and local communities to achieve balance with our earth and our climate.

Securing tenure rights for local communities is one of the most important ways we can be thinking about climate action around the world. We believe no one knows their land better than communities who live in it, and when good governance mechanisms are bolstering those rights, it enables the best conditions for good stewardship.

Learn more about what we have done on the “Land Plus Climate” nexus